Professional Financial Computing Using Excel & VBA (Wiley Finance)

Professional Financial Computing Using Excel & VBA (Wiley Finance) Review

Professional Financial Computing Using Excel and VBA is an admirable exposition that bridges the theoretical underpinnings of financial engineering and its application which usually appears as a “black-box” software application. The book opens the black-box and reveals the architecture of risk-modeling and financial engineering based on industry-standard stochastic models by utilizing Excel and VBA functionality to create a robust and practical modeling tool-kit. Financial engineering professionals who purchase this book will have a jumpstart advantage for their customized financial engineering and modeling needs.

Dr. Cameron Wicentowich
Vice President, Treasury Analytics
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)

Spreadsheet modeling for finance has become a standard course in the curriculum of many Quantitative Finance programs since the Excel-based Visual Basic programming is now widely used in constructing optimal portfolios, pricing structured products and managing risks. Professional Financial Computing Using Excel and VBA is written by a unique team of finance, physics and computer academics and practitioners. It is a good reference for those who are studying for a Masters degree in Financial Engineering and Risk Management. It can also be useful for financial engineers to jump-start a project on designing structured products, modeling interest term structure or credit risks.

Dr. Jin Zhang
Director of Master of Finance Program and Associate Professor
The University of Hong Kong

Excel has been one of the most powerful tools for financial planning and computing over the last few years. Most users utilize a fraction of its capabilities. One of the reasons is the limited availability of books that cover the advanced features of Excel for Finance. Professional Financial Computing Using Excel and VBA goes the extra mile and deals with the Excel tools many professionals call for. This book is a must for professionals or students dealing with financial engineering, financial risk management, computational finance or mathematical finance. I loved the way the authors covered the material using real life, hands-on examples.

Dr. Isaac Gottlieb
Temple University
Author, Next Generation Excel: Modeling in Excel for Analysts and MBAs

Does This Make My Assets Look Fat?: A Woman's Guide to Finding Financial Empowerment and Success

Does This Make My Assets Look Fat?: A Woman's Guide to Finding Financial Empowerment and Success Review

As Susan Hirshman sees it, the rules of successful dieting are the same rules that apply to successful money management. In this upbeat and informative guide she offers women a 3-phase personalized plan that follows common dieting programs to help them understand their finances.

The structure of the book is consistent with that of a typical diet book - it includes an evaluation phase, an induction phase, and a maintenance regimen.  Susan offers specific advice on topics that matter most to women including how to develop realistic and attainable goals, how to make smart financial decisions, how to determine the best way to invest based on a reader's 'investment personality', and how and when to get professional help from a financial advisor all while relating it back to a theme that practically every woman has experienced at least once in her life - dieting!. 

Susan's program completely removes the intimidation factor that often accompanies the words 'personal finance' and 'investing' and provides women with all the information they need to take control of their financial situations once and for all.

 

The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime.

The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime. Review

Is the financial plan of mediocrity -- a dream-stealing, soul-sucking dogma known as "The Slowlane" your plan for creating wealth? You know how it goes; it sounds a lil something like this:

"Go to school, get a good job, save 10% of your paycheck, buy a used car, cancel the movie channels, quit drinking expensive Starbucks mocha lattes, save and penny-pinch your life away, trust your life-savings to the stock market, and one day, when you are oh, say, 65 years old, you can retire rich."

The mainstream financial gurus have sold you blindly down the river to a great financial gamble: You've been hoodwinked to believe that wealth can be created by recklessly trusting in the uncontrollable and unpredictable markets: the housing market, the stock market, and the job market. This impotent financial gamble dubiously promises wealth in a wheelchair -- sacrifice your adult life for a financial plan that reaps dividends in the twilight of life. Accept the Slowlane as your blueprint for wealth and your financial future will blow carelessly asunder on a sailboat of HOPE:HOPE you can find a job and keep it, HOPE the stock market doesn't tank, HOPE the economy rebounds, HOPE, HOPE, and HOPE. Do you really want HOPE to be the centerpiece for your family's financial plan?

Drive the Slowlane road and you will find your life deteriorate into a miserable exhibition about what you cannot do, versus what you can. For those who don't want a lifetime subscription to "settle-for-less" and a slight chance of elderly riches, there is an alternative; an expressway to extraordinary wealth that can burn a trail to financial independence faster than any road out there.

• Why jobs, 401(k)s, mutual funds, and 40-years of mindless frugality will never make you rich young.
• Why most entrepreneurs fail and how to immediately put the odds in your favor.
• The real law of wealth: Leverage this and wealth has no choice but to be magnetized to you.
• The leading cause of poorness: Change this and you change everything.
• How the rich really get rich - and no, it has nothing to do with a paycheck or a 401K match.
• Why the guru's grand deity - compound interest - is an impotent wealth accelerator.
• Why the guru myth of "do what you love" will most likely keep you poor, not rich.
• And 250+ more poverty busting distinctions...

Demand the Fastlane, an alternative road-to-wealth; one that actually ignites dreams and creates millionaires young, not old. Change lanes and find your explosive wealth accelerator. Hit the Fastlane, crack the code to wealth, and find out how to live rich for a lifetime.

Twitter Marketing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Twitter Marketing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) Review

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Get the latest tweets, tools, tips, and techniques and kick-start your Twitter marketing campaign!

As the fastest-growing social networking service with more than 50 million tweets posted per day, Twitter poses a plethora of marketing possibilities. Boasting more than 50 percent new or updated content, this fun and friendly second edition reflects the latest features that Twitter has implemented to make the service more appealing to business users. Twitter Marketing For Dummies, 2^nd Edition helps you build a following, promote your product, and drive more traffic to your Web site.

• Details the changes to Twitter since the previous edition and explores the newest features and functionality that Twitter now offers to businesses looking to market their product on the fastest-growing social networking service
• Shows you how to effectively increase your visibility and promote your message via Twitter
• Looks at the new promoted Tweets and Twitter lists
• Delves into the marketing possibilities that exist with the new feature of sharing tweets on other social networking sites

So stop twiddling your thumbs and start tweeting today with the Twitter marketing advice shared within the pages of Twitter Marketing For Dummies, 2^nd Edition.

Building Wealth Using The Tin (Finances, Christian Living)

Building Wealth Using The Tin (Finances, Christian Living) Review

Margarette Perkins believes that the secret to building wealth is to save for the future—not become a slave to the future. By now you have heard all the “get-rich-quick” scams on television and in seminars—that don’t work! Now it’s time to do it the right way. But in order to change your present condition, you must change your thinking condition, which will change your financial condition. It’s high time you take charge of your finances and live the life you’ve been dreaming about. About the author: Young, single, and penniless, Margarette Perkins knew nothing of investments, 401K plans, stocks, or bonds. Today she’s financially independent, a successful business owner, and an inspirational speaker.

The Little Finance Book That Could: A Practical Guide to Becoming Debt Free While Living a Financially Responsible Life

The Little Finance Book That Could: A Practical Guide to Becoming Debt Free While Living a Financially Responsible Life Review

If you're in debt or struggling to make your paycheck stretch to pay the bills then it's time to do something about it. By changing your financial habits you can quickly get your finances back on track and begin to enjoy life again. Jennifer Brozek inspires and guides you by drawing on lessons learned from her own financial battle. Inside this book you will discover 10 rules for quickly climbing your financial mountain and becoming debt-free. Once you've achieved your first goal you will learn the 5 principles of financial responsibility to ensure you never get dragged into debt again. At 25 Jennifer Brozek was ,000 in debt and making just ,000 a year. Five years later she is debt free and living a comfortable lifestyle with a healthy savings account. As someone who has experienced financial difficulties and turned things around by applying some good old-fashioned parental training, Jennifer is living proof that you can do it too. She went from a life of debt and worry to a life of financial responsibility and freedom - in this book she shows you how she did it and you can too.

Personal Finance for Overseas Americans: How to direct your own financial future while living abroad

Personal Finance for Overseas Americans: How to direct your own financial future while living abroad Review

Personal Finance for Overseas Americans is a personal finance guide written for Americans who live overseas, or plan to. The basics of financial planning and money management are included, but so are many little known and little understood aspects of financial life for Americans living outside of North America.

The Word On Finances

The Word On Finances Review

In 66 priceless books, God gave us the best financial advice we can find anywhere-all we need is a little help to sort it out. This concise guidebook gives us the Word on more than 70 money-related topics.

How To Manage Your Personal Finances The Right Way

How To Manage Your Personal Finances The Right Way Review

This book will help give you ideas and tips on how to manage your personal finances in a more efficient way.

Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with Your Personal Computer, with Disks (Wiley Investing)

Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with Your Personal Computer, with Disks (Wiley Investing) Review

This text brings cyber-investing up-to-date with revised Windows-format software, a new cyber-investing kit that includes more free offers, plus updated graphs and tables, a new chapter on the Internet, and the electronic investing "tools of tomorrow". Investment strategies and theories are presented in a manner so that individual investors and beginners can apply the methods described. This volume includes: simple search programs to uncover undervalued stocks; stock analysis tools to tell you when to buy or sell; and portfolio management techniques to simplify maintenance and keep track of investments.

How to Unscramble Your Nest Egg: A Fresh Approach to Personal Abundance and Building Real Home Ownership

How to Unscramble Your Nest Egg: A Fresh Approach to Personal Abundance and Building Real Home Ownership Review

In uncertain economic times, financial security belongs to those who possess genuine ownership and a solid nest egg. Nationally recognized mortgage consultant John Cunningham uses his unique, proven insights to provide a remarkable plan that helps home buyers build real equity. 30 line drawings.

Personal Workbook to accompany Money, Purpose, Joy: The Proven Path to Uncommon Financial Success

Personal Workbook to accompany Money, Purpose, Joy: The Proven Path to Uncommon Financial Success Review

Discover the connection between money and what really matters in life. Using a prodigal son approach, financial expert Matt Bell helps readers understand how we've traveled far from the financial home God prepared for us. Matt helps readers redirect spending to meet their deepest longings for relationships and joy.

Private Wealth Management: The Complete Reference for the Personal Financial Planner

Private Wealth Management: The Complete Reference for the Personal Financial Planner Review

The last 30 years have witnessed stock market booms and busts, economic prosperity and downturns, various presidential administrations, and technological revolutions. Through it all, Victor Hallman and Jerry Rosenbloom's classic guidebook, which previously was titled Personal Financial Planning in its first through seventh edition, has retained its status as the most accurate and up-to-date resource to help Americans protect their futures by investing wisely, insuring their families, and planning for their estates and retirements.

Now, with Private Wealth Management, Eighth Edition, money managers and personal investors once again have a reliable resource of personal financial management guidance that is complete with essential new material addressing the latest trends in financial planning.

These historic economic times call for new guidance. Hallman and Rosenbloom deliver with new chapters on asset protection planning, cash flow analysis, and interest accumulation concepts, as well as increased coverage of common stock investments and alternative investments. Additionally, in-depth and up-to-date attention is given to the Tax Relief Act of 2004 and the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

This proven wealth-building tool features cutting-edge financial thinking and highreturn/ low-risk strategies in virtually every applicable area, including

• Index funds
• Value investing
• Dollar-cost averaging
• Fixed-income investing
• Profit-sharing plans
• Stock bonus plans
• 401(k) plans
• Simplified employee pension plans
• Estate planning
• Gift taxes
• Generation-skipping transfer taxes
• Income and capital gains tax planning
• Health insurance plans including HMOs
• Personal risk management

From setting financial objectives and understanding the planning process to investing in equities and fixed-income securities, Private Wealth Management offers an effective, coordinated process that shows readers how to plan a prosperous financial future in today’s no-guarantee financial environment.

Family Budget Workbook: Gaining Control of Your Personal Finances

Family Budget Workbook: Gaining Control of Your Personal Finances Review

Financial expert Larry Burkett introduces the ultimate family money management workbook. His sensible, realistic plan for getting and keeping your finances under control includes easy-to-use worksheets that make following the plan as easy as possible.

Credit Derivatives and Structured Credit: A Guide for Investors (The Wiley Finance Series)

Credit Derivatives and Structured Credit: A Guide for Investors (The Wiley Finance Series) Review

Over the past decade, credit derivatives have emerged as the key financial innovation in global capital markets. At end 2004, the market size hit .4 billion (in notional amounts) from virtually nothing in 1995. This rise has been spurred by the imperative for banks to better manage their risks, not least credit risks, and the appetite shown by institutional investors and hedge funds for innovative, high yielding structured investment products. As a result, growth in collateralized debt obligations and other second-generation products, such as credit indices, is currently phenomenal. It is enabled by the standardization and increased liquidity in credit default swaps – the building block of the credit derivatives market.

Written by market practitioners and specialists, this book covers the fundamentals of the credit derivatives and structured credit market, including in-depth product descriptions, analysis of real transactions, market overview, pricing models, banks business models. It is recommended reading for students in business schools and financial courses, academics, and professionals working in investment and asset management, banking, corporate treasury and the capital markets.

Highlights include:

• Written by market practitioners and specialists with first-hand experience in the credit derivatives and structured credit market
• A clearly-written, pedagogical book with numerous illustrations
• Detailed review of real-case transactions
• A comprehensive historical perspective on market developments including up-to-date analysis of the latest trends

The Neatest Little Guide to Personal Finance

The Neatest Little Guide to Personal Finance Review

Jason Kelly's two previous books demonstrated his talent for translating the complicated jargon of Wall Street into a common language the financially fearful could understand. Now Kelly's tactics will reach an even wider audience with The Neatest Little Guide To Personal Finance. Combining friendly advice with solid expertise, Kelly's newest book provides guidance on how to figure your net worth, get out of debt, maximize your income and plan an investment strategy for retirement. He includes lessons on how to borrow money wisely, choose an IRA, and manage student loans while offering hints on selecting insurance plans, filing tax returns and financing a home. With Jason Kelly's trademark flair, The Neatest Little Guide To Personal Finance shows how sensible saving and spending can lead to peace of mind and a profitable future.

The Millionaire Next Door: Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

The Millionaire Next Door: Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy Review

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How can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over one million dollars)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule is, always live well below your means. The last rule is, choose your occupation wisely. You'll have to buy the book to find out the other five. It's only fair. The authors' conclusions are commonsensical. But, as they point out, their prescription often flies in the face of what we think wealthy people should do. There are no pop stars or athletes in this book, but plenty of wall-board manufacturers--particularly ones who take cheap, infrequent vacations! Stanley and Danko mercilessly show how wealth takes sacrifice, discipline, and hard work, qualities that are positively discouraged by our high-consumption society. "You aren't what you drive," admonish the authors. Somewhere, Benjamin Franklin is smiling. The bestselling The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door. This new edition, the first since 1998, includes a new foreword for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley.